Husband's fatal shooting was accidental, Tipton County wife says

A Brighton, Tenn., woman told Tipton County Sheriff’s deputies that she accidentally shot her husband to death early Sunday morning.

The shooting happened in the 7200 block of Tenn. 14 South, where deputies found William Stanford Brewer, 37, had been shot by his wife, Angela Denise Brewer, 43.

According to the Tipton County Sheriff’s Office, the woman’s claims that her husband’s death was accidental were also being investigated Sunday by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

Later in the day she was arrested and charged with reckless homicide and aggravated assault resulting in death. She is being held without bond pending her arraignment this week, according to Chief Bill Daugherty of Tipton County Sheriff’s Office.